Variational Bayesian Model Selection for Mixture Distributions

600 data points from 5 mixtures

Generating data points

Training a Variational Gaussian Mixture model

Evolution of the likelihood lower bound

Data from 3 same-covariance Gaussians (900 points)

Generating data points

Training a Variational Gaussian Mixture model

Data from 3 same-mean Gaussians (400 points)

Generating data points

Training a Variational Gaussian Mixture model